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â—† Deal covers record five out of six EU Taxonomy objectives â—† Issuer commits to annual EuGB issuance â—† Timed to beat heavy green traffic
French bank has been in pole position in the MTN and private placement market
‘Outstanding year’ of funding overall for the bank in across currencies, €800m left to fund until year-end
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KfW brought yet another record breaking trade to the SSA market in 2019, printing a five year euro benchmark whose order book volume was an all-time high for the issuer. -
Greece has cash. It didn’t need to take €2.5bn of five year bond funding from the capital markets on Tuesday. But the deal was a good tactic to demonstrate that it has access to new capital, which will ultimately push down its borrowing costs and push up its credit ratings. It worked for Portugal, so why not Greece?
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Greece’s highly anticipated return to the public bond markets on Tuesday met with a strong reception from investors. With up to €4.5bn more of benchmark bonds to issue in 2019, Greece is expected to return to the markets for a second syndication this year, which bankers say could be in the 10 year part of the curve. Cyprus will look to follow up on Greece’s success after setting out plans to roadshow a euro transaction in February.
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Austria's 10 year syndication on Tuesday received a final order book that was almost twice the size of its previous record volume. Belgium was also in the market with its second OLO of the year, opting this time for a much longer maturity. Both deals were in keeping with eurozone sovereign supply this year, comfortably printing a combined €10bn from over €55bn of orders.
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Società per la Gestione di Attività (SGA), Italy’s bad loan management vehicle, is preparing to sell its first senior unsecured bond in the euro market. The company’s funding needs have risen amid a growing focus on cleaning up the Italian banking sector.
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Natixis has made some internal changes to its MTN team, after the desk’s global head Elsa Martin took on a new position within the bank.
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